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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






2. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






3. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.






4. Individual Educational Plan






5. Closed syllable






6. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress






7. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






8. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






9. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






10. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






11. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.






12. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






13. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language






14. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale






15. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






16. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






17. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






18. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






19. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






20. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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21. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






22. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






23. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.






24. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






25. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.






26. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






27. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






28. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin






29. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






30. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






31. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






32. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.






33. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






34. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






35. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness






36. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






37. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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38. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading






39. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






40. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






41. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






42. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






43. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language






44. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






45. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer






46. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






47. Ability to understand and express spoken language






48. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood






49. r-controlled syllable






50. Academic Language Therapy Association